United States presidential election, 1892

The United States presidential election, 1892 was held on 8 November 1892. The Democratic Party presidential nominee Grover Cleveland and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I won the election with 277 electoral votes, defeating the Republican Party ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (with 145 electoral votes) and the Populist Party ticket of James B. Weaver and James G. Field (with 22 electoral votes). The Populist Party, assisted by the Knights of Labor and farmers' alliances, polled best in the American West, and they split the Republican vote; both the Republicans and Populists supported bimetallism, while the Democrats supported the gold standard. Cleveland also pledged to lower tariffs and to oppose extending voting rights to African-Americans in the American South.